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title: In a few years he had become so noted a piper that people would trav… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few years he had become so noted a piper that people would travel far and wide to hear him. Who acts: Tiidu, piper. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 8

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In a few years he had become so noted a piper that people would travel far and wide to hear him.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, piper · **What happens:** become, note, travel, hear · **To what, where:** piper, Tiidu

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, piper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:11:8
# text = In a few years he had become so noted a piper that people would travel far and wide to hear him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | Tiidu |  |  |  | year |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **note** | past | Tiidu *not said here* | a piper |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent piper=Topic |
| 3 | **travel** | would | a piper |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | a piper *not said here* | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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